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fertility

fertility

13 3.7
The number of babies born alive for every 1,000 people each year
  • noun
  • /fərˈtɪləti/
  • Specialized
translation icon : tasa de fecundidad
  • And I want to go through now why we're seeing such a great decrease in fertility today.
  • fertility rate
  • total fertility
  • fertility decline

Coming up, a fascinating deep dive into the declining fertility among young men and women worldwide.

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Examples

  • Now, in general, low fertility has been linked to a decline in power.

  • Malthusian and neo-Malthusian theories predict that fertility rates should negatively affect economic prosperity and nutrition.

    Academic text (1990)
  • We want to explain why Israel has a high fertility rate despite being rich.

  • For example, the total fertility rate is 1.6 in Russia, 1.4 in Poland, and 1.2 in South Korea.

    Academic text (2012)
  • At a time when the US fertility rate is at a historic low, is Vance right to worry?

  • Coming up, a fascinating deep dive into the declining fertility among young men and women worldwide.

  • What else can the Qatari government give its nationals in order to increase their fertility rate?

    Academic text (2015)
  • Despite significant pronatalist measures, the fertility rate of indigenous Qatari women has gradually declined since the early 2000s.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Consequently, Qatar's fertility rate is projected to stabilize at 3.0-3.2 for the foreseeable future.

    Academic text (2015)
  • In many developing countries, the fertility rate is often higher than in developed nations.

Synonyms

birth rate
vsfertility
  • Specialized
17 2.5

Number of live births per 1,000 people in a year

is the wider population rate not tied to area phrasing
birthrate
vsfertility
  • Specialized
7 3.2

The number of babies born each year for every one thousand people

is the broader rate idea often reported in simple terms
fertility rate
vsfertility
  • Specialized
3 2.8

The number of babies born per 1,000 people in one year

is the general rate concept usually measured as that number
natality
vsfertility
  • Specialized
9.2

The number of live babies born per 1,000 people each year

is the common rate term often used without technical flavor

Compounds

fertility drug
  • Specialized
11 3.5

A medicine a woman takes to help her get pregnant

fertility rate
  • Specialized
3 2.8

The number of babies born per 1,000 people in one year

Surface Forms

fertility singular
fertilities plural

Morphology

fertility = fertile (transparent) = fertile + ity

The demographic meaning (rate of producing offspring in a population) is a direct extension of 'fertile' + '-ity' and follows normal word-formation patterns.

Etymology

Fertility comes from the Latin fertilis, from ferre meaning 'to bear' or 'carry'. Because it is about how many children people 'bear', fertility is used to talk about the rate of births in a population.